Fortune-telling attachment.



' PATBNTED MAR. 31, 190s..

0. 13.31131). FORTUNE TBLLING ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILEDJAN.' 3.. 1902.

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2l /zo His -Httarng- UNITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. HURD, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSYIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TONELLIE F. SMITH, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

FORTUNE-Tammo ATTACHMENT. i

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,392, dated March31, 1903. `Application tiled January 3, 1902. Serial No. 88,329. (Nomodell) To all whom t may con/cern.:

Be itknown that I, CHARLES L. I-IURD, aciti.- zen of the United States,and a resident of the city of Chelsea., in the county of Suolk, State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFortune-Telling Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

The object of this invention is the construction of a fortune-tellingattachment for use in connection with coin-operated vendingmachines inorder that the person to whom an article is delivered upon theintroduction of the designated coin may at the same time have hisfortune told.

In coin-operated vending-machines it is customary to combine three orfour vending s slides and chutes in a single machine, both the Slide.

for the purpose of presenting a choice of varions different articles andto furnish a larger supply of the same articles that the machine may notso soon be exhausted. My fortunetelling attachment is thereforeconstructed to be automatically operated when any one of the severalslides is manipulated.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1is a vertical section of a vending-machine supplied with my attachment.Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is a centrallongitudinal section of the cylinder comprising the main part of theattachment.

The vending-machine shown is designed to be of the general constructionset forth in my companion application, Serial No. 76,899, andcomprisinga case 36, formed with a removable door or cover 34, and aplurality of chutes 30,

supplied with packages 31 and package-delivering slides 20, formed withprojections having forks 25 pivoted thereto and by which when a slide ispushed inward a package 31 is ejected through the opening 32 and slidesdown into the control of the person operating Each slide is providedwith locking devices, as disclosed in said application,

which are constructed to release the slide when a coin has been insertedin the coinopening 21, and thereby permit such slide to be pushed inwardand its forks to eject a package.

las shown in Fig. 3.

legends extending in lines parallel with the l axis of the cylinder, anda cylinder-turning mechanism operated by the inward movement of anyslide 20. The fortunes are de= signed to be Yread singly through theslot 35 in the door or cover 34,the rotation of the cylinder presentingfresh lines .of reading matter to view. My mechanism for enabling theoperation of any one of the slides to rotate the said cylinder 'isconstructed as follows: -Pivoted on the axis of the cylinder 1 are twoarms 10, one at each end of the cylinder and caused to swing rigidly inunison by being formed from a single length of metal having alongitudinal section 11, with its extremities bent at right anglesthereto to form said arms, From these arms near their juncture with thelongitudinal section 11 extend the ends of the Wire 14. 15, bent into asubstantially U-shaped contour, the arm-sections 14 of which are ofproper length to locate the bar-section 15 a short distance in advanceof the slide projections 22, the distance being such that said bar isnot quite reached by a projection 22 when a slide, upon being pushedinward, is stopped by the lockingdevices. Pivotally secured to one ofthe arm-sections 10 is a pawl 12, constructed to engage theinternally-toothed flange 5 at its end of the cylinder l. A spring 13normally retains the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1. When now acoin is introduced in any of the slides and the latter pushed inward,its projection 22 meets and carries with it the bar-section l5, therebyswinging the arms 10 toward the chutes 30 and giving the cylinder apartial turn. This presents a'fortune'at the slot 35, which can beeasily perused while the package 31 descends from the particular chute30 whose slide is manipulated.

It will be observed that the cylinder l is supported by the entrance ofits spindles 6 into bearings at the upper 'ends'of the posts 41, risingfrom the framework 40, and is in no way held by the case of the machine.

ln the construction of the fortune-telling cylinder I prefer to have itsends cast as separate heads 3 and 4, with the spindles 6 integraltherewith. Each head is formed with a flange 5,'upon which is adapted tobe tightly fitted a sheet-metal tube or drum'2,

vsaid flanges being slightly tapering, so that they'can be driven firmlyinto the ends of said tube and so bind the parts together. The head 4has its fiange on the face toward the spindle projecting therefrom, andin the inner face of this flange 5 are formed the ratchet-teeth 7,engaged by the said pawl 12.

The fortune reading matter is either printed upon paper wrapped aboutthe cylinder or lithographed upon the sheet-metal cylinder itself beforeit is xed in its cylindrical shape.

What I claim as my invention, and for which I desire Letters Patent, is'as follows, to wit:

1. The combination with a cylinder having xinscriptions upon itsperiphery, of a ratchetwheel rigid therewith, a paWl engaging saidratchet-wheel, a pair of pivotally-supported arms one of which carriessaid pawl, means retracting said arms, a longitudinally-movable slidehaving a projection, and a horizontal transversely-extended membersupported in the path of said projection and connected with said arms,substantially as de-v scribed.

2. The combination with a case having the observation-slot extending forsubstantially the width of the case, of the cylinder revolubly supportedbeneath said slot and having inscriptions upon its periphery, the armsswinging on the axes of said cylinder, the U Wire terminally attached.to said arms, the slide constructed to engage said wire and ltherebyswing said arms, the spring for re-

